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Thursday May 17, 2007

UPDATE: Simplified steps for GlassFish V2 are available here and for V3 here.

Follow up from here.

In this post I'll show how a Ruby-on-Rails (RoR) application, talking to MySQL database, can be deployed as a WAR file on GlassFish V2. Here are the steps I followed:

Create a HelloWorld RoR app talking to MySQL database as described here.
Expand NetBeans project, expand 'Configuration' and open 'database.yml'. Change production database entry from:

production: adapter: mysql database: HelloWorld_production username: root password: host: localhost
to

production: adapter: jdbc driver: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver url: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/helloworld_development username: root password:

Notice, even though this is production setting we are using a "development" database.
In 'Configuration', 'environment.rb', add

require 'jdbc_adapter'

right before

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|

On some platforms, this syntax has caused problems. In that case, it may alternatively be specified (step 9) as:
```
if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /java/
       require 'rubygems'
       RAILS_CONNECTION_ADAPTERS = %w(jdbc)
end
```
Recreate the WAR file by invoking the command 'rake war:standalone:create' from your application directory.
Drop this WAR file in "domains/domain1/autodeploy" directory of your GlassFish instance and you are done!

With this, you've deployed a Ruby-on-Rails application accessing MySQL database as a WAR file on GlassFish V2.

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